Teen pleads guilty in dragging death

WEST PALM BEACH (AP) -- One of three Riviera Beach teens accused in the dragging death of an 84-year-old woman has accepted a plea deal and now faces up to 20 years in prison.

Jimmie Lee Williams, who turns 16 Sunday, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon, admitting to snatching Ida Mirel's purse in May 1999. Sentencing is scheduled for March 2.

Williams took Mirel's purse outside of a popular Boca Raton restaurant as she walked to her car after breakfast with her husband. He then jumped into a stolen Dodge driven by Jonathan Griffin, 19. A third teen, Martroy Futch, was in the back seat. Griffin then pressed the gas pedal sped away. The car dragged Mirel 2,000 feet, leaving her body in pieces.